LiAuto HaloOS Open-Source Automotive Operating System Announcement and Roadmap

In March, LiAuto CEO Li Xiang announced at the Zhongguancun Forum that the company’s self‑developed vehicle operating system, "LiAuto HaloOS," will be fully open‑sourced, becoming the world’s first car manufacturer to open‑source an entire vehicle OS.

The open‑source plan, scheduled to start on April 23, includes modules such as the vehicle control OS, intelligent driving OS, communication middleware, and virtualization platform. The rollout will occur in three stages: first the vehicle control system, then the core capabilities of both the vehicle control and intelligent driving systems, and finally the complete intelligent driving system with virtualization features.

LiAuto has created an open‑source organization on Gitee (https://gitee.com/haloos) to host the project. The OS is positioned for the AI era, featuring four pillars—intelligent vehicle control, intelligent driving, communication middleware, and information security—under the permissive Apache License V2.0. Currently, the open‑sourced code primarily covers the intelligent vehicle control OS and the Lite communication bus.

Future milestones include the release of HaloOS 0.1.0 on April 23, HaloOS 1.0.0 on June 30 (with full intelligent vehicle control and basic intelligent driving capabilities), and a complete intelligent driving system with virtualization after July.

For more technical details, refer to the HaloOS whitepaper and the Gitee repository.